* Absalom is the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in " Lost in the Stars ", Kurt Weil's play based on the novel " Cry the Beloved Country ".

The False Cross is diamond-shaped, somewhat dimmer on average, does not have a fifth star and lacks the two prominent nearby " Pointer Stars.

The drama associated with this disagreement is one of the main themes of Empire of the Stars, Arthur I. Miller's biography of Chandrasekhar.

* 1775 – The becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag ( the precursor to the Stars and Stripes ); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.

* The Plough and the Stars is a play by Seán O ' Casey that takes place during the Easter Rising.

The Vail Film Festival in Vail, Colorado, is one of the " Top 10 destination film festivals in the world " ( MovieMaker magazine ), screens over 90 films, features mostly new filmmakers and honors Rising Stars, including Jesse Esienberg, Olivia Wilde, and many more.

The design of the first Stars and Stripes by Hopkinson had the thirteen stars arranged in a " staggered " pattern technically known as quincuncial because it is based on the repetition of a motif of five units.

The grail is central in many modern Arthurian works, including Charles Williams's novel War in Heaven and his two collections of poems about Taliessin, Taliessin Through Logres and Region of the Summer Stars, and in feminist author Rosalind Miles ' Child of the Holy Grail.

* 1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.

Lemmy is one of the characters in the book Sex Tips from Rock Stars by Paul Miles.

* 1861 – The first national flag of the Confederate States of America ( the " Stars and Bars ") is adopted.

* In Vladimir Savchenko's Black Stars ( 1960 ), neutronium is mechanically and thermally indestructible substance.

Ophiuchus in a manuscript copy of Azophi's Book of Fixed Stars | Uranometry, 18th-century copy of a manuscript prepared for Ulugh Beg in 1417 ( note that as in all pre-modern star chart s, the constellation is mirrored, with Serpens Caput on the left and Serpens Cauda on the right ).

It is known as (, " The Seventh of the Three Stars ") in Chinese.

The name is because the Asterism of Three Stars was originally composed of just three stars, all of them in the girdle of the Orion.

Serpens and Ophiuchus in a manuscript copy of Azophi's Book of Fixed Stars | Uranometry, 18th-century copy of a manuscript prepared for Ulugh Beg in 1417 ( note that as in all pre-modern star chart s, the constellation is mirrored, with Serpens Caput on the left and Serpens Cauda on the right ).

The PPM was built from BD, SAO, HD and more, with sophisticated algorithm and is an extension for the Fifth Fundamental Catalogue, " Catalogues of Fundamental Stars ".

Colonel David Hackworth is likely the record holder for most Silver Stars awarded to one individual.

Stars with large debris disks have altered astronomical thinking about planet formation ; debris disk stars, where dust is continually generated by collisions, appear to form planets readily.

* In the 1950 western Stars in My Crown, the town is devastated by typhoid spread by a school's well.

In theosophy, it is believed the Seven Stars of the Pleiades focus the spiritual energy of the Seven Rays from the Galactic Logos to the Seven Stars of the Great Bear, then to Sirius, then to the Sun, then to the god of Earth ( Sanat Kumara ), and finally through the seven Masters of the Seven Rays to the human race.

* In the 1960 Cold War novel Village of Stars by David Beaty ( writing as Paul Stanton ), an RAF V-bomber of the fictional Venger type is sent to drop a nuclear bomb on a rebel force in the Middle East.

She is ranked 16th on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Stars list, unveiled on 15 June 1999 by the American Film Institute.

Sternberg publishes the General Catalog of Variable Stars ( GCVS ), which is periodically ( approximately once every two years ) amended by the publication of a new " Name-List " of variable stars.

* Stars, wood engraving ( 1948 )

* Stars ( M. C. Escher ), a wood engraving print by M. C. Escher

Early Stars were built from wood, but modern boats are generally made of fiberglass.

As well as a website, Stars and Stripes publishes four daily print editions for the military service members serving overseas ; these European, Mideast, Japan, and Korea editions are also available as free downloads in electronic format, and there are also seven digital editions.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word " prequel " first appeared in print in 1958 in an article by Anthony Boucher in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, used to describe James Blish's novel They Shall Have Stars.

In March 2005, BBC News Magazine reported the Morning Stars circulation as between 13, 000 and 14, 000, quoting John Haylett's comment " perhaps only one in 10 of these readers would label themselves as communists ", while in August 2006, The Guardian reported the print run to be " around 25, 000 ".

To everyone's surprise, Against the Fall of Night remained popular enough to stay in print after The City and the Stars was published.

In 2007, Stars manager Don Money was named the Southern League's Manager of the Year as voted upon by the league's field managers, radio broadcasters, and print media.

Allbritton would not assist Katharine Graham, the owner of the Post, in any way, refusing to print his rival's papers on the Stars presses since that likely would have caused the Star to be struck by the press operators as well.

As seen in 1984: Selected Letters, at the time Stars was published his relationship with his publisher, Bantam, underwent a major rupture, with Bantam declining to print the final volume of the Return to Nevèrÿon series, Return to Nevèrÿon ( eventually published by Arbor House as The Bridge of Lost Desire ).

The largest polyhedron shown in Study for Stars, a stellated rhombic dodecahedron, is also one of two polyhedra depicted prominently in Escher's 1961 print Waterfall.

Arthur C. Clarke's novel The City and the Stars first saw print in Startling in abbreviated form, in the November 1948 issue, under the title Against the Fall of Night.

It is available on Kill Rock Stars ' Video Fanzine # 1 release ( 1999, out of print ).

*" Albertus Magnus & Prognostication by the Stars "

Andersson met Björn Ulvaeus in June 1966, and the two started writing songs together, their first being " Isn't It Easy To Say ", eventually recorded by The Hep Stars.

The first song to commemorate the musicians was “ Three Stars ” by Eddie Cochran.

In the end, there was a Pentagon review and decision by Congress to stop the awarding of Bronze Stars to personnel outside the combat zone.

In novels such as The City and the Stars and the story " The Sentinel " ( upon which 2001: A Space Odyssey was based ) Clarke presents ultra-advanced technologies developed by hyperintelligences limited only by fundamental science.

#* performed by Neil Young & Crazy Horse ; previously unreleased ; different lead vocal dub than version on American Stars ' n Bars

On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, the Red Wings set the NHL record for most consecutive wins at home in a single season by winning their 21st home game with a 3-1 victory over the Dallas Stars, and on Sunday, February 19, 2012, defeated the San Jose Sharks to record their 23rd consecutive home victory, breaking the overall record previously held by the Boston Bruins over two seasons from 1929-1930.

Stars of spectral category A typically rotate very quickly, which makes it very difficult to measure the small Doppler shifts induced by orbiting planets since the spectral lines are very broad.

Some of Cheney's motorcycle designs are now famous in their own right, such as the competition BSA Gold Stars of Jerry Scott and Keith Hickman and the John Banks replica which used a BSA B50 engine specially tuned by Cheney.

She was the Mother of several notable offspring, including the Winds, Zephyrus, Boreas, and Notus, and the Morning Star, Eosphoros, all of whom she bore to the Titan Astraeus (" of the Stars "), and Memnon, her son by Tithonus.

In the year 2009, the was Sam Fransikachea Visvaxiponnachea Dekhin, Jezu-Noketra Bhaxen Porzollum-ia, which translates from Konkani into English as ' Inspired by the faithfulness of Saint Francis, let us shine like Jesus, the Star ', probably based on the year's pastoral theme of the Archdiocese of Goa e Damão Noketram Bhaxen, Sonvsarant Porzollum-ia which translates into English as ' Shine like Stars, in the World '.

* " Caravan to the Stars " by David Kyle

Indeed, it appears the Maker of the Stars himself, by clear arguments, admonished me to call these new planets by the illustrious name of Your Highness before all others.

* The John Green novel, The Fault in Our Stars commonly uses the term by the characters to describe themselves as being from Indiana.

Brando made the Top Ten Money Making Stars, as ranked by Quigley Publications ' annual survey of movie exhibitors, three times in the decade, coming in at number 10 in 1954, number 6 in 1955, and number 4 in 1958.

In the first 9 days of the lunar 9th month festival, an oil lamp of 9 branches may also be lit to honour both the Northern Dipper and 2 other assistant stars ( collectively known as the Nine Emperor Stars ), sons of Dou Mu appointed by the Taoist Trinity ( the Three Pure Ones ) to hold the Books of Life and Death of humanity.

Stars like the Sun are powered by the fusion of four protons into a helium nucleus, two positrons, and two neutrinos.